A quick message to readers– well, those of you are still subscribed to an RSS feed somewhere or who came across this link: Since I left my job as web producer of Houston Belief over the summer, my blogging has been spotty at best. This week, I began a new position in the religion news […]
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Pop culture icons can elicit deep responses their from faithful followers, and when the Texas State Fair’s iconic giant cowboy burned to the ground Friday, it became clear that the big guy was more than just a fiberglass and metal structure. After his accidental cremation, Big Tex was hauled away in a “procession resembling a […]
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Victory Marching from The Work Of The People on Vimeo. I’ve written before about Christian singer and Houston native Derek Webb. Weeks after returning to Texas last month for shows in Houston, College Station and Dallas, Webb exposits on the nature of God in a new video interview. He talks–in what seems like one, long, […]
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Jennifer Knapp — a Christian singer experiencing a resurgence over the past couple years, this time as an openly gay artist — will perform and share her story at a Houston congregation Thursday, which is National Coming Out Day. Her talk, “Inside Out Faith,” will take place at Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church in the Heights. Resurrection belongs […]
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When 6,000 churches close each year, 35,000 church-goers leave each day and only 15 percent show growth year-over-year, what can American Christians do? Author and pastor James MacDonald, coming to Houston Friday, notes these statistics as evidence of the struggles of the American church and proposes a solution he calls the “vertical church.” It’s time, […]
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As the Olympic Games continue, thousands of Jewish teenagers will travel to Houston next week for a once-every-four-years sports competition of their own, the JCC Maccabi Games. The Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston is holding the event Aug. 5-10, with a range of sports tournaments and an arts showcase. (Houston serves as one of […]
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Especially in a religiously and ethnically diverse city like Houston, it can be easy to forget the plight of those persecuted for their faith around the world. A documentary coming to town this weekend serves as “a grim reminder of all those lives caught up in no man’s land,” the story of Pakistani Hindus unable […]
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On Sunday, the largest worship service in the country was said to be held in the Superdome in New Orleans, where 36,000 gathered for a youth conference. Youth and pastors from the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod, headquartered in Houston, were among the crowd at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s four-day youth gathering, which focused on […]
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